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Recovering teen addicts open up with camera, pen

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 06/05/07

She's alone in the photograph. Standing behind a chain-link fence, her fingers entwined with the metal, she stares at the camera.

Kathleen Lange - For the Capital Top: Tiffany W., a participant in the county's Juvenile Treatment Court program, with Duane Arbogast of Crofton and Patricia Suriano of Annapolis at the opening of "Insights: The Identity Project."
BOTTOM: Judy Feldt of Gambrills, assistant state attorney assigned to juvenile treatment court, and Rebecca Johnston of Arnold, courtroom clerk at Anne Arundel Circuit Court, look over photographs created by Luke K.
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"I am a little girl who cries herself to sleep at night," Kim W. wrote in an excerpt that accompanies the picture.

She's in trouble and trying to clean up her life, she wrote.

"I try to find my way out. But the only way seems to be a painful road that will not end."

Kim, a recovering drug addict, is one of 20 teenagers with photos on display at the Anne Arundel County Circuit Courthouse in Annapolis. The exhibit, "Insights: The Identity Project," is composed entirely of work by children...

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